Plastic Solar Cell Technology Discussion 2022

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Plastic Solar Cell Technology
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Date: 15-4-2020
Subject: Plastic Solar Cell Technology
Introduction
Purpose
The purpose of this proposal is to gain an understanding of the Plastic Solar Cell
Technology, which is type of photovoltaic uses organic electronics in addition to branch of
the electronics to deal with organic polymers. Through this proposal work, the reader can get
to know about advantage of using this product, plastic solar cell is that it is clean as well as
non-pollution energy sources. It is also a renewable source of energy and not produce noise
for generation of electricity. In US, there is focused on green energy as well as solar cells as it
contributes to lower down emission of CO2 and minimized electricity bills.
Problem
The problem is regarding generation of electricity as well as heat in the house and
workplace. People are also concerned about the sustainability and eco-friendly environment,
therefore Plastic Solar Cell is the best technology to generate electricity as well as heat
through solar PV. It provides an opportunity to create savings on the electricity bill as people
is not required to pay for the energy generation. With this technology, there is no pollution, as
release of both waste as well as pollution is unescapable in relative of creation of solar cells.
Therefore, it is an environmental friendly innovation. At the winter season or rainy season, it
is not beneficial to use the solar technology. The solution is to grid connection the solar
installations as well as purchase of energy from the electricity network at that time.

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Photovoltaic is a green energy and it is considered as superior solution for climatic change
prevention (Indian Patents News, 2011). It is an innovative technology under research plus
development.
When the thin film solar cell is being applied to light emitting plastic advertising
board, then it becomes a technical field of the new generation of energy. The solar radiation
get from the ground is reduced by around 4%, then the production of electric energy of thin
film solar cell is mounted on advertising board on ground is being reduced, in addition power
supply to display screen is also affected. PV system has good durability and at same time, this
product provides a guarantee for 20-25 years on solar panels (Global IP News, 2015).
Whenever a home or workplace have Plastic Solar Cell Technology, then it is easier to sell
that property at high price.
Discussion
The photovoltaic cell configuration with respect to the organic materials is differed
from the inorganic semiconductors. The main difference is regarding physical properties of
the inorganic as well as organic semiconductors. In order to aid in development of the solar
cells, there is required to develop high efficiency materials (Grätzel, 2004). Efficiency is not
only the factor related to commercialization, however there is relevance related to material
costs, era of time as well as manufacturability.
Analysis
Technical description of mechanisms: The solar cell technology enables the
manufacturers to provide high efficiency as compared to standard solar cells attainment of
physical limits. With current state of this technology, there is achievement of 1% gain in
efficiency, which can enable to decrease in cost at system level. The plastic solar cell
contains of plastic layer on the glass. In the laboratory, glass plates are used with transparent

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electric contact. There is putting of ink for active layer, which is considered as part of solar
cell to convert light in electricity.
Technical instructions: The most bulk material used for the solar cell is the crystalline
silicon. From top to the rear, it has screen printed silver paste for forming the contacts, anti-
reflective coating as well as phosphorous diffused and boron doped silicon wafers to form P-
N junction (Lo et al., 2012).
Options: The option is to get most of the electrons out of solar cells, and then the
technology can enable to make improvement over light capturing near rear surfaces as well as
optimize the capturing of electrons.
Cost charts:
Electricity source Manufacturing cost
($/W)
Cost of initial project
investment ($/W)
Thin film PV (Organic
PV)
$1.00 $2.50
The manufacturing cost of the solar PV in $/W represented 40% of total installation
cost as well as 60% of the entire installation cost (Lo et al., 2012).
Conclusion
It is concluded that development of the plastic solar cell technology is cost effective
as well as high enough to provide power conversion efficiency, which would represent
commercial viable solutions to existing requirements of the home and workplace. Apart from
this, the emerging technology is also linked with risks in development as well as
commercialization procedures. The risk is minimized by information exchange among the

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project stakeholders and identification of proper resources required. It is recommended to
make proper production decisions by implementation of technical and economic cost model
to analyze the manufacturing cost and benefits at all production outputs.

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References
Global IP News. (2015). State Intellectual Property Office of China Releases Wuxi Tongchun
New Energy Technology's Patent Application for Cultural Display Device with Thin-
Film Solar Cell Applied to Light-Emitting Plastic Advertising Board. Advertising
Patent News.
Grätzel, M. (2004). Conversion of sunlight to electric power by nanocrystalline dye-
sensitized solar cells. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A:
Chemistry, 164(1-3), 3-14.
Indian Patents News. (2011). National Institute of Technology Calicut Files Patent
Application for Fully Plastic and Large Area Printable Solar Cell Using Conducting
Polymer-Elastomer Composite Transparent Hole-Injecting Electrode.
Lo, V., Landrock, C., Kaminska, B., & Maine, E. (2012, July). Manufacturing cost modeling
for flexible organic solar cells. In 2012 Proceedings of PICMET'12: Technology
Management for Emerging Technologies (pp. 2951-2956). IEEE.